Groundwork

Published by: Gnomon Press (Paperback 1979)

Published by: Gnomon Press (Hardcover 1979)

Included poems:

The Hollow

Blue Ridge

Fear

Plankroad

Huckleberry Bald

Appalachian Trail

Mountain Bride

The Flying Snake

Lost Flower

Real and Ethereal

Galacker: The Galax Gatherer

Sport

Otis

Snowlight

Death Crown

Canning Time

Burnoff

When the Ambulance Came

Slop Bucket

Walnutry

Baptism of Fire

Bean Money

Huckleberries

Reuben's Cabin

Upstairs at the Country Store

Wallowing

Bricking the Church

Tear Bottle

Burning the Hornet's Nest

Milksick Pen

Smokehouse Dirt

Blackberries

Pigeon Loft

Mountain Page

Zircon Pit

Secret Pleasures

Den Tree

Devil's Courthouse

Trash

Praying Through

Related media:

Mountain Bride (poem)

Praise for Robert Morgan:

At their finest, his stripped-down and almost primitive sentences burn with the raw, lonesome pathos of Hank Williams's best songs.

— The New York Times Book Review

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Morgan writes with an enviable clarity that makes personalities, issues and event come alive on the page.

— BookPage

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Morgan has contributed so much to the health of southern poetry over the last thirty-five years that the southerness of his work is axiomatic... [His] reputation is made, in no small part, on the strength of his ear, with which he has produced some of the most sonorous poems in the language.

— North Carolina Literary Review

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